The Wonderful World of Materialized Views (or, Why Indexing in Magento 1.13 Is So Much Faster) When Magento Enterprise 1.13 came out it boasted massive improvement in index operation performance. On the Magento blog
One of the things that I think is important to do in your testing is to introduce some level of randomness into your testing for a web server. In the wild you have almost
I’ve been doing a lot testing with JMeter lately for Magento. I really do like it (Magento and JMeter). It may not be the bestest, most perfectest tool in the world, but a) it’s
controller_front_init_before Technically, it’s resource_get_tablename, but the first usable event is controller_front_init_before. But this is also a bit of a trick question. controller_front_init_before is ONLY triggered from the global area. The first usable event in
I was giving the Magento Performance and Optimization for System Administrator’s course today and I said something that is either borderline brilliant, stupid, or common knowledge. What I said was something along the lines
I was talking with a colleague about my previous blog post on memory utilization in Magento and he noted that I had not taken into account backend tasks. Which he was right about. So
Note, this is based off of an older version of the Magento 2 codebase. With the minimal research I have done on Magento 2 recently the only thing I am apprehensive about is the
My previous blog post on the DIC (Dependency Injection Container) in Magento 2 covered just some basics of using the Magento 2 DIC. The purpose of that post was to, perhaps, make you less
One of the biggest switches you will experience when moving from Magento 1 to Magento 2 is inversion of control. This is a very different concept to get used to but once you have